intolerable

• untolerable (obsolete)

From Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ tolerable.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒləɹəbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: in‧tol‧er‧able

intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.

   Synonyms: insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unsittable

2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4:

     It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.

3. (nuclear power) Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe.
   • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎:

     o take apart an ageing nuclear facility, you have to put a lot of other things together first. New technologies, for instance, and new buildings to replace the intolerable ones, and new reserves of money.

• “intolerable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “intolerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ tolerable.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [in.tu.ləˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [in.to.ləˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [in.to.leˈɾa.ble]

intolerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural intolerables)

1. intolerable

   Synonym: insuportable

   Antonym: tolerable

• intolerablement

• intolerabilitat

• “intolerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intolerable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “intolerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intolerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ tolerable.

• IPA^(key): /intoleˈɾable/ [ĩn̪.t̪o.leˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧to‧le‧ra‧ble

intolerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural intolerables)

1. intolerable

   Synonym: insoportable

   Antonym: tolerable

• “intolerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014